Word: kabul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disagreed over everything, from the role that ex-King Zahir Shah should play in the rebuilding of war-torn Afghanistan to the composition of the shura itself, some spectators had the eerie feeling of watching a car accident taking place in slow motion. "This is the last chance for Kabul," says a Western diplomat based in Islamabad. "If it collapses, Afghanistan will collapse into fratricidal bloodshed...
...KABUL, Afghanistan--President Najib said today the nation's war could end in a negotiated settlement within weeks, and that representatives of his Marxist government have talked with Moslem guerillas...
...main highway connecting Kabul to the Soviet Union, which Soviet troops had used to withdraw, remained open, according to Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and Bakhtar, the Afghan news agency, Tass said more than 100 trucks carrying Soviet food and supplies were bound for the Afghan capital...
Vorontsov said some guerilla groups were in contact with the Kabul government, despite their public vows against any negotiations with Najib. "Some dealing exists already--clandestinely," he said. He declined to comment further...
WORLD: As the last of the Soviets leave Kabul, Afghans shudder at the prospect of the bloody siege to come...